Apple has one advantage that Samsung doesn’t: loyal and very vocal customer evangelists. They’re probably their best tool to turn the effect of this ruling around and change the court-ordered postings from an embarrassment into a PR coup. It’s already started — take a look at these recent tweets:

UK judge also ruled that Apple has to invite Samsung to its birthday party, and he doesn’t want to hear any whining.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-1…

You can bet the bigger part of smartphone users understands the message pretty well, no matter how clever Apple’s PR spin doctors will try to word it. While Samsung might not have the same loyal fans as Appe, Android certainly has.